by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are...
Mobile Learning Should Disrupt What ‘School’ Is by Terry Heick In education, we tend to think of mobile learning as learning in classrooms with tablets and smartphones. And that’s part of it. Students being able to untether themselves from desks is an extraordinary...
The Shift From Content To Purpose: A Continuum of Choice by TeachThought Staff What is the difference between a teacher-centered and learner-driven classroom? We’ve taken a look at examples of student-centered teaching before. It’s both a subtle (in theory) and...
When School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live Inby Terry HeickReading recently through Edutopia’s resources on informal learning, the distinction between formal and informal learning resonated more strongly now than ever.As a classroom teacher, this difference...
What Teachers Can Change by Terry Heick John Hattie’s Visible Learning meta-analyses is can’t-miss reading on teaching and learning. In the book, Hattie extracts data from over 50,000 studies in an attempt to uncover what the data says works. In that way, he isn’t...
10 Rhetorical Questions To Create New Ideas For Learning by Terry Heick Lately I’ve found myself squinting a bit at some of the practices and structures in teaching and learning. This squinting is less about efficiency or performance, but rather what effect each piece...
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